Four lab sessions will be devoted to
discussing original recent research. Small groups of students
will discuss eight empirical
articles during these designated lab sessions. Each student
will serve as discussion leader for one of the eight articles
and as discussion participant for two additional articles.
Discussion leaders will present a brief summary of the
study and provide a one-page outline for student participants.
Discussion participants will read the article and
provide a brief summary. Please provide me with list of your
first four choices for articles by Thursday, September 2nd, so
that discussion leaders may be assigned for each of the articles.

At each lab session, two articles will
be discussed. Please see the schedule below for dates and times for
discussions and your assigned sessions. You need only attend those
discussion sessions you are assigned. Please do not be late to your
assigned session as this would be extremely disruptive to your fellow
students.

Discussion leaders should read
their assigned articles (your summary paper article is your discussion
leader article) and complete a one page handout that summarizes
their studyís introduction,
method, results, and discussion, as well as 2-3 questions for
discussion ( ***Discussion leaders: Please
see sample
outline to use as a model). During the discussion session, you
should distribute the outline/handout and use it to give a brief
overview of the study, then lead a brief discussion about the article.
Complete the discussion
leader worksheet and turn it in at the session.

Discussion participants should
read the article BEFORE the lab session (bring it to class with you!)
and complete the discussion
participant worksheet BEFORE the session.